CORRECTION – “Beautiful Game. Beautiful GOALS.”

I thought it didn’t sound right at the time, but it turns out it was a problem of pronunciation from the translator at the press conference. Neither FIFA nor the Local Organizing Committee is suggesting people should watch to see some pretty players, they are simply anticipating some excellent goals to be scored. A different kind of pressure, then…

And judging by the stern question from an American reporter asking what on earth the physical attractiveness of the players had to do with anything, I was not the only one to have misheard our hosts… Lesson learned. Moving on.